52 PCWorld JUNE 2020REVIEWS DELL XPS 13 9300
quad-cores, you’re looking at about 50
minutes of running the CPU hard.
Performance of theXPS 13 9300 is in line
with that of most 10th-gen Core i7-1065G7
laptops.As we said before: Unless you really need
to hammer an all-core workload all the time,
the performance doesn’t matter that much.
For example, if all you do is drive Office and a
browser all day, multi-core performance
doesn’t matter.PCMark 8 Work
To measure a conventional workload, we use
UL’s PCMark 8 Work test. Suddenly the more
modern 10th-gen Core i7-1065G7 chips lead
the pack, but the margins again are narrow.
Remember, if all you do on your laptop is
“normal” stuff, don’t get too wrapped up in
the performance metric.
While the 6-core Core i7-10710U in the
older XPS 13 7390 leads in CPU tasks, one
area where it falls apart is graphics. Here
we see the Iris Plus graphics cores in the
XPS 13 9300 offer nearly 100 percent
better performance than the older XPS 13- That basically mean games as well
as OpenCL-based tasks will run faster.
Battery life
The most important metric of any
ultraportable laptop is likely its battery life.
For our test, we loop a 4K video file using
Windows’ Movies & TV app. We set up the
laptop as if it were playing a movie on a
cross-country flight. We put it into airplane
mode and attach earbuds with the volume
set to its midpoint. We set the screen
brightness to 250 to 260 nits, which is aHandBrake can take 50 minutes to run on an
ultraportable laptop with a quad-core CPU.Dell XPS 15 7590Core i9-9980HKDell XPS 13 7390Core i7-10710UM14 DefaultSI Prestige
Core i7-10710U
MLaptop 3 15”icrosoft Surface
Ryzen 7 3580U
Dell XPS 13 9300 Performance
Core i7-1965G
Dell XPS 13 9380Core i7--8565UDell XPS 13 9300 Default
Core i7-1965G
Dell Inspiron 15 7000
Core i7-8565U
Acer Spin 5Core i7-8550UHuawX Proei MateBook
Core i7-8550U
HP Spectre x360 13 2019
Core i7-8565U1
HP Spectre x350 13 5t h Gen
Core i7-1065G7
HP Spectre x360 13 2016
Core i7-7500UHandBrake 0.99 Encode
SecondsSHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE3,3123,1923,6542,6353,4693,2803,6544,1514,1754,3024,3996,6381, 595